BALDWIN PARK – A 17-year-old gang member accused of shooting a man in the arm in February was arrested Thursday following an early-morning raid on his home by police.

In that shooting on Feb. 21, a 20-year-old man and his girlfriend were driving near Maupin Avenue and Clark Street when they spotted a man on the sidewalk holding a gun.

As the girlfriend tried to turn her car around to leave the area, the gunman fired two shots through the passenger-side door, one of which hit the man in the forearm.

Police were alerted to the shooting after the victim was admitted to Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina for treatment.

Baldwin Park police Lt. David Reynoso said witnesses made statements to detectives that led them to a home in the 14600 block of Clark Street, a short distance from where the shooting occurred.

Reynoso said officers served a search warrant at the home about 5 a.m. Thursday and discovered evidence linking the boy to the shooting, but he declined to elaborate on what they found.

The boy, an admitted member of a Long Beach-based gang, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, Reynoso said. After being booked at the Baldwin Park jail, he was taken to Los Padrinos juvenile hall in Downey, where he is being held without bail.

Reynoso said the victim was not a member of a gang and the motive for the shooting is not known.